Data visualisation story
You should have a favourite…
Informative
Inspiring
Beautiful
Just like any other story, data stories can be…
A data visualisation is just a graphical representation of data.
Dataviz are not necessarily intelligible - which is where data stories come in.
A data visualisation is just a graphical representation of data.
Dataviz are not necessarily intelligible - and can be quite confusing.
Data storytelling is about communicating. Data stories make dataviz meaningful and engaging.
I’ll demonstrate what I mean by sharing my favourite data story - “A Day in the Life of Americans” by Nathan Yau.
Sit back and take in this 60 second clip of Nathan Yau’s data story. While watching I want you to think about a few questions…
What’s the first thing you notice?
What questions do you have about
The data
The story
What do you think about doing?